sabato 28 gennaio 2017

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of SunglassesVanessa BrownBloomsbury

In Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses, Vanessa Brownaddresses the links between the kaleidoscopic and evasive
concept of ‘cool’ throughout the twentieth century and the history of
sunglasses. It is a valiant attempt to show how sunglasses chime with
ideas of detachment, superiority, alterity, meaningless and glamour, but
Brown avoids explicitly addressing the true aim of the book, which is
to provide an attractive theory of ‘cool’.

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
is divided into nine sections that suggest sunglasses can be seen as
reflections, manifestations or materialisations of diverse narratives of
‘coolness’. The thesis takes its starting point as the turn of the
twentieth century, when European cultural elites dealt with alienation
in the metropolis by manifesting their detachment from their bustling
surroundings. The journey ends by presenting the reader with
the view – largely drawn from an exploration of Andy Warhol – that
‘coolness’ is a defence against the assault on the self and the
debasement of meaning, which are considered by Brown to be two central
features of modernity.

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mercoledì 4 gennaio 2017

1920s JAZZ AGE Fashion & Photographs

Until 15 January 2017

Fashion and Textile Museum London

The 1920s JAZZ AGE exhibition presents a glittering display of haute
couture and ready-to-wear fashion from 1919 to 1929. Women’s clothing in
the 1920s reflected dizzying social change on an unprecedented scale.

From Paris and London to New York and Hollywood, the decade following
the Great War offered the modern woman a completely new style of
dressing. With over 150 garments, this stunning selection of sportswear,
printed day dresses, fringed flapper dresses, beaded evening wear,
velvet capes, and silk pyjamas reveals the glamour, excess, frivolity
and modernity of the decade. Colourful illustrations by Gordon Conway
from the Illustrated London News Archive at Mary Evans and photographs
by Abbe, Beaton, Man Ray, and Baron de Meyer highlight the role
of photographs and magazines in promoting the 1920s look.

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Hair by Sam McNightEmbankment Galleries-Somerset HouseLondon

A major exhibition celebrating Sam McKnight's remarkable 40-year career from the late 1970s to the current day. Sam
McKnight has been instrumental in helping to create some of the most
iconic images in popular culture from Princess Diana’s short, slicked
back style to Madonna’s Bedtime Stories album cover and Tilda
Swinton channelling David Bowie. McKnight’s work traces a vast array of
movements and hairstyles, from nostalgic to androgynous, romantic to
sexy, red to platinum, cataloguing the transformative nature of hair
within the image.

He has worked on countless fashion editorial shoots (including over
190 Vogue covers), advertising campaigns and catwalk shows with
supermodels Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi
Campbell, and with international fashion designers Chanel and Vivienne
Westwood.

Hair by Sam McKnight is the first exhibition to contextualise
the wider cultural significance of hair and the role of the session
stylist within fashion.